THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART THREE)

                                        THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART THREE)

                                                     BIBLICAL HISTORY

The people of Dan were explorers and settled in new places. Centuries before the captivities they founded colonies in Greece, which attracted immigrants from the other tribes. The Bible speaks of Zebulun and Naphtali as being great warriors. The Dorian Greeks (Greece had four tribes ; the Dorians were Israelites) were noted for strong, healthy bodies. It was only long afterward, when Greece brought slaves and intermarried with them. Early Troy was founded by Hebrews that came from Egypt before the Exodus (1453 B.C.). From Troy came the Romans who settled in Italy.

A study of the dates when the various tribes were taken into captivity will show that they were not all taken captive at one time. In fact, many years difference was recorded between their captivities. Thus, the punishment period of 2.520 years would start and end at different times depending on the tribe of Israel.

The tribe of Benjamin was the last tribe to go into captivity. The great Scottish Pyramidologist and Bible Chronologist, Dr. Adam Rutherford, F.R.G.S. , told the Icelandic nation many years ago that on a certain day and certain year, they would become an Independent nation. At that time they were under the control of Denmark. Exactly 2.520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation. The Icelandic Parliament acknowledge they are of the tribe of Benjamin.

It is difficult to determine with certainty which Anglo-Saxons (Saxon = son of Isaac) Scandinavian-Lombard-Germanic-Celtic nation of today is basically from which particular tribe.

There has been intermingling among the tribes in their westward migrations. In God's plan of the ages they progressively became "many nations" in Europe and a "company of nations" (the Commonwealth of Great Britain) with colonies and daughter nations.

Today, certain European and Scandinavian nations appear to process certain characteristics of the individual tribes of Israel which may well indicate the people of those nations are predominately of that particular tribe (i.e., Denmark-Dan, Holland-Zebulun , Germany-in part Judah. Great Britain although it has been identified with Ephraim, has a large infusion of Judah as well as other tribes.

America, processing the "birthright marks" of Joseph, can only be identified as modern Manasseh (the 13th tribe). Please read II Samuel 7:10, Jer. 3:18, Ezekiel 37:19-22. The United States originally had 13 states.

Josephus (Jewish Historian) records that the portion of the nation of Judah carried into Babylonian captivity by king Nebuchadnezzar was a million and a half (Neh. 7). Seventy years later, when Judah was allowed to return to their homeland, only 42.000 (Neh. 7:66) went back to Jerusalem, rebuilt the temple and set up the nation, later to be called the nation of the Jews. While in Babylon, many of the 42.000 intermarried with Babylonians, adopted the Babylonian financial, political and ecclesiastical systems.

Josephus further reports that many non-Israelites joined themselves to the returning Judahites. Later, Christ identified these people, also called a Jew (A Jew in the Greek means, of the tribe of Judah, or an inhabitant of Judea), as not of Galilee, (John 7:1-13) not of Abraham or of God, (John 8:39-47) and not of His sheep (John 10:26-30).

It was this mixed remnant of Judah, upon returning from the Babylonian captivity in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, that became known as the nation of the Jews ; a name not applied to Judah prior to the Babylonian Captivity. Nethinims (Kenites = Sons of Cain = Satan's offspring) were mixed among these people returning to Jerusalem. Please read John 8:42-47, Matt. 13:24-30, 13:37-43.

By the time of Christ, continued mixing with Amorites, Philistines, Canaanites, Babylonians, and Hittites.

Modern Jewry includes a further in-mixing with Mongol-Turkish people (Khazar kingdom of Russia) who adopted Judaism during the 8th and 9th centuries A.D.

GOD BLESS

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